Filter Bubble

Google Search needs no introduction! It is the top most used web search engine on the Internet. Besides Google, there are also other search engines, such as Bing, Baidu, DuckDuckGo, Yandex, Ask.com, AOL.com and many. DuckDuckGo search engine is known for prot…

As references to echo chambers and filter bubbles become ubiquitous in contemporary discourse, Axel Bruns offers a riposte in Are Filter Bubbles Real?, which questions the existence of these phenomena. While not convinced by all of the author’s arguments, Ignas Kalpokas welcomes the book as a must-read for those looking…

When the rapper Mac Miller died tragically in Sep. 2018, he left behind an unfinished album he'd been working on with producer Jon Brion. Now, 18 months later, the long-anticipated follow-up to Miller's 2018 release, Swimming is here. Circles (a nod to swimmi…

Six years later the Irishman and his ship played a pivotal part in one of Britain's greatest naval disasters. In October 1707, a royal navy fleet ran on to the coast of the Scilly Isles with the loss of four warships that claimed the lives of up to 4,000 men.…

tech Wrapping your head around the engagement Trump’s Iran-related Facebook posts are getting is almost impossible. Posted on January 10, 2020, at 12:33 p.m. ET Drew Angerer / Getty Images President Donald Trump speaks about Iran during an event to unveil significant changes to the National Environmental Policy Act in…

It was last year that the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) announced its stricter gender stereotyping rules, with VW and Philadelphia the first brands to fall foul prompting a frenzied discussion about the implications for adland. While many myself inclu…

Just like that, 2019 is over and 2020 is underway. Many of last years marketing developments fade into insignificance as the industry focuses on the future. Future gazing is important in the fast-moving world of marketing and in particular, social media; con…

Twitter executives speak at a press briefing at CES on Wednesday. James Martin/CNET This story is part of CES 2020, our complete coverage of the showroom floor and the hottest new tech gadgets around. Twitter executives said Wednesday that the social netwo…

What if politicians could only display Twitter replies from their supporters while stopping everyone else from adding their analysis to the conversation? That’s the risk of Twitter’s upcoming Conversation Participants tool it’s about to start testing that let…

What if politicians could only display Twitter replies from their supporters while stopping everyone else from adding their analysis to the conversation? That's the risk of Twitter's upcoming Conversation Participants tool it's about to start testing that let…